Biography

I always wanted to be a journalist and I still think it is the best job in the world. I now teach the next generation of news and sport journalists at the University of the West of Scotland and seeing them at the start of the adventure is really exciting.

For me, my meandering role into journalism started at Hampden Park. Having done a degree in Scottish Literature and Film and TV studies, I was assistant curator of the Scottish Football Museum. All manner of journalists would traipse through writing stories for newspapers, recording interviews for radio and TV and I realised they were not superhumans! Journalists were just normal people like you and I - except slightly more unhinged.

So I did a post-grad degree in journalism and from there worked at The Herald as a news reporter, the BBC as a researcher on documentaries, before finally settling as a sports reporter. A sports reporter who got distracted by people letting me present things like T in the Park, but a sports reporter nevertheless!

However, I had a baby and I left. What has ensued from there on in has been more life-changing than travelling the world and meeting famous people and it is therefore no coincidence that I now spend more of my time in journalism working on political programmes than sport. Scotland, the media, the world and I changed all around about the same time. I'm lucky that my new area of specialism - social media - is changing both how media organisations distribute news, and how readers consume it.

I also have a labrador.

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